By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne-Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth wrestling team dug a hole it couldn’t climb out of early in Thursday’s match against Tracy-Milroy in Tracy.
After yielding forfeits at 103 and 112, and getting pinned at 119 (Chad Cooreman over Anthony Boyenga at 3:28) and 125 (Adam Snyder over Kerry Fink at 1:53), the Cardinals found themselves facing a 24-0 deficit.
L-H-BC-E went on to win six of the final 10 matches, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Cardinals from dropping a 42-31 decision to the Panthers.
The Cardinals closed the gap to eight points (27-19) by winning four of five matches between 130 and 152 pounds.
The run featured pins from Dusty Seachris (8:48 over Andy Nelson at 135) and Canaan Petersen (2:32 over Austin Skobilk at 152), Ruston Aaker’s 10-0 major decision win over Ryan Jackson at 130 and Jesse Saravia’s 3-1 decision win over Andy Bryne at 140.
T-M received a 10-4 decision victory from Paul Carlson over Justin Mann at 145 to keep the Cards from winning five straight wins.
After L-H-BC-E pulled within eight points. T-M iced the match by getting pins from Scott Torkelson (2:27 over Matt Goembel at 160) and Mike Schreier (1:29 over Jeff Cronberg at 189), and a 4-2 decision win from Tim Bryne over Jose Saravia at 189.
Cardinals Joel Evans pinned Brett Peterson in 1:09 at 215 and Cody Jagow covered Kong Her in 2:44 at heavyweight to end the night.
Match wrap-up
103 (T) Hebig by forfeit.
112 (T) Cooreman by forfeit.
119 (T) Cooreman pins Boyenga.
125 (T) Snyder pins Fink.
130 (L) Aaker m.d. Jackson.
135 (L) Seachris pins Nelson.
140 (L) Je.Saravia dec. Bryne.
145 (T) Carlson dec. Mann.
152 (L) Petersen pins Skobilk.
160 (T) Torkelson pins Goembel.
171 (T) Bryne dec. Je.Saravia.
189 (T) Schreier pins Cronberg.
215 (L) Evans pins Peterson.
275 (L) Jagow pins Her.